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Dr. Luis Osvaldo Araneda, 90, of Hollidaysburg, passed away June 30, 2023, in Cary, N.C. He was born in Victoria, Chile, the son of Luis Osvaldo Araneda Bravo and Elcira Cabezas Figueroa.
He studied at Universidad Nacional del Litoral, School of Medicine, Rosario, Argentina.
Dr. Araneda emigrated in the 1960s with his wife and children, first to Canada, and then to the United States to conduct internships and residencies and embark on a medical career that spanned surgery, obstetrics, anesthesiology and emergency medicine, and which included service as a medical officer for the United States Air Force. His medical career stretched well into his eighties.
Dr. Araneda will best be remembered for his kindness, his passion for medicine and continuous studying, his work ethic, his energy and his many hobbies which included but are not limited to flying, boating, skiing, travel, languages, photography, piano, gardening, auto mechanics, tools, cats, ham radio and a ceaseless tinkering with intricate devices of any sort. Other curious interests of his were watching early Charlie Chaplin and Three Stooges films to uncontrollable laughter.
Dr. Araneda's family was always very proud of him. One of his children's early memories of Dr. Araneda soon after having arrived in the United States is him receiving an award at a large ceremony for having saved a life by performing an emergency roadside tracheotomy. He was a hero. He dedicated his life to saving lives.
Such was Dr. Araneda's energy and passion for medicine, not to mention his thirst for adventure, that in his mid-eighties, he strode into the offices of Doctors without Borders and the French Foreign Legion seeking volunteer assignments.
Dr. Araneda is survived by his children: Jorgelina Araneda and her husband, Randall Stroud, of Raleigh, N.C.; Luis Araneda III and his wife, Emily Darsey Wilkinson Araneda, of Spain; and Adrian Araneda of St. Petersburg, Fla.; stepdaughters: Conni Miller, Bonni Lindberg and Patricia Marks; his grandchildren: Max Araneda, Izzy Araneda and Rachel Stroud Corvin; his great-grandchildren, Claire and Elizabeth Corvin; and his brother, Rodolfo Araneda of Chile.
Dr. Araneda was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Nestor Araneda; his sister, Nancy Araneda; his first wife, Stella Maris Araneda; and his second wife, Constance Araneda.
A celebration of life will be held in Raleigh, N.C.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Dr. Araneda's memory to Alzheimer's Association; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105; or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.